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On the recordApril 12, 2011
If the subcommittee will just give me 1 minute of latitude before we get into Energy, Madam Chair, I wanted to just call everyone's attention to the fact that the Mississippi River, as we meet here today, is flowing at an extraordinary historic level.
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Mary Landrieu
Democratic · Louisiana

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Landrieu highlights the historic flow of the Mississippi River and its implications for energy and water management.

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